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  1. max silver
    I read an article that suggested it was an internal brace procedure.
  2. max silver
    That would be weird for a team to see something in his still healing surgically repaired ligament that would scare them off. If he failed a physical it would be the Carlos Correa situation times infinity though.
  3. max silver
    I don't think the team would gain an extra win in overall value by playing Ohtani at first base vs more experienced options like Vlad, Biggio, Hortwitz etc. He would be facing a steep learning curve as it's doubtful he's played the position as a professional and would be facing an uphill battle to even become an average defender there in such a short time span. Of course Vlad was positively awful in 2023, but I suspect he will most likely be quite a bit better there in 2024.
  4. max silver
    It appears as though Harper first played first base about 8 months after his surgery. If Ohtani were to come back on a similar timeline it would place his return towards the end of May. It was an internal brace procedure and not full Tommy John surgery, but I don't know how this affects the overall recovery time vs the full procedure. I know for me personally I would choose to be ultra conservative and fully protect my $600 million investment having Ohtani DH only and fully avoid sending Ohtani to the field for the entirety of 2024.
  5. max silver
    There have just been too many instances of on and off the field episodes that suggest the guy is basket case.
  6. max silver
    I don't think there would be any chance he'd be able to play first base unless he had strict orders to never throw the ball to the other bases. Even then I don't think it would be wise to do anything that would add to his overall workload and potentially compromise his ability to recuperate from the ligament surgery.
  7. max silver
    Yeah that team's collection of young talent with an ownership group willing to offer them fair extensions and properly supplement the team through free agency is a terrifying prospect.
  8. max silver
    He didn't hit for a high enough batting average.
  9. max silver
    It appears as though Moreno was only viewed as an elite prospect by the internet prospect evaluators, and not valued this way by actual baseball front offices. I really don't know why you keep coming back to Soto, if Moreno was a cream of the crop elite prospect why would you want the organization to trade him for rental player? This would be shooting themselves in the foot for a short term fix.
  10. max silver
    Two of these were trades, only one was a free agent.
  11. max silver
    No other free agent hitters of note have signed yet, unless you are overly concerned about the team missing out on Candelario. The team simply didn't have the necessary assets to match the Yankees offer of young starting pitching unless they foolishly offered up Tiedemann and Manoah, so Soto was likely not realistically attainable.
  12. max silver
    Surely you must realize that the only season of Varsho's career that counts when determining his relative value is the single season he played as a Blue Jay. Despite the down season at the plate he produced roughly similar value to Moreno. At the same time we are to ignore the fact that Gurriel had the worst offensive season on his career since his rookie season and that Moreno had a worse season than Jansen and remarkably similar season to Kirk in terms of overall value to his team.
  13. max silver
    Will it be the front office's fault if Ohtani eventually signs elsewhere? It seems to me they've likely done everything within their power to convince him to join the organization to even get to this point.
  14. max silver
    And his playoff sample was very similar, in which he hit very well in his first 5 games of the post season and then cooled off dramatically after that.
  15. max silver
    I find I'm spending a ton of time refreshing Blue Jays Reddit recently as it's a good repository for Blue Jays related news and Tweets.
  16. max silver
    To be fair Moreno did end the season on a very positive note as he produced a 146 wRC+ over the last 3 months/168 plate appearances. This is a pretty small sample size though and it remains to be seen if he can keep this up over a full season of play when dealing with the rigors of playing behind the plate and with the league having the opportunity to make adjustments. For comparisons sake Davis Schneider produced a 176 wRC+ over 141 plate appearances and he started to struggle once the opposition was able to poke holes in his overall plate approach.
  17. max silver
    One can dare to dream but I'm trying my best (it's becoming increasingly difficult) to avoid getting overly excited about Ohtani.
  18. max silver
    As opposed to religion which is much better?
  19. max silver
    Good thing the Jays have one catcher who averaged 121 wRC+ over the last 3 seasons (Jansen), and another who averaged 113 wRC+ over the last 3 seasons (Kirk).
  20. max silver
    Moreno has a career wRC+ value of 104 in the regular season. This barely above league average offensive performer is the guy you are absolutely losing your mind over. Varsho has a career wRC+ value of 96. This is a whopping 8 point difference.
  21. max silver
    The guy's brain is missing the logic center, all he's capable of is firing off a stream of emotional overreactions.
  22. max silver
    Moreno didn't tear things up in the playoffs, he ended with a 100 wRC+, placing him 40th among all players who played in the post season. This was only 5th on the Diamonbacks behind Pham who ended up 103 wRC+. This is remarkably close to Daulton Varsho's 96 wRC+ career value who you are calling a throwaway player, yet for Moreno you are acting like he's Aaron Judge behind the plate.
  23. max silver
    I'm surprised he didn't call you a liberal/Trudeau supporter as that seems to be the go to argument for this type of poster.
  24. max silver
    Prime Kevin Pillar's best season was a full win lower than Varsho's best season up to this point. Pillar's second best season of his entire career was worse than Varsho's worst season to date where Varsho played primarily in left field. It's easy to justify the Varsho trade. All 3 of the Jays catchers had serious question marks that would limit their potential returns and the team chose the best offer they received. It's not rocket science. Moreno spent several seasons with a Kevin Pillar type of bat (lots of hit but very few walks and extra base hits) but behind the plate, Kirk is shaped like the baseball version of Danny Devito and Jansen simply can't stay healthy. Instead of fixating on the prospect ranking value of Moreno which has zero worth in determining his actual trade value, take an objective look at what he could have been reasonably expected to provide offensively in MLB when faced with superior pitching and defenses.
  25. max silver
    You fail to realize how valuable a truly elite center field defender with a league average bat is. If he takes a bit of a step forward with the bat he could fire off 5+ win seasons akin to what Devon White provided during his career.
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